Promotion retrieval

In Pricing, promotions are defined for items and business partners. Promotions are used to offer extra discounts and/or free gifts on sales orders or sales order lines.

With the exception of default promotions, which are automatically searched for, LN uses promotion matrices to check whether a promotion is defined for the item and/or the business partner of a sales order.

LN searches for valid promotions in the promotion matrices for which a matrix priority is defined. The retrieval of promotion matrices is controlled by the Line Promotion Control and Order Promotion Control parameters in the Pricing Parameters (tdpcg0100m000) session.

The parameters can have these values:

• First Eligible

  The first valid promotion is applicable.

• All Eligible

  All valid promotions are applicable.

• First Eligible plus All Exclusive

  The first valid promotion is applicable for which the Exclusive Promotion check box is selected in the Promotions (tdpcg0140m000) session.

• All Exclusive

  All valid promotions are applicable for which the Exclusive Promotion check box is selected in the Promotions (tdpcg0140m000) session.

To retrieve promotions from a promotion matrix, LN searches for promotion matrices with a matrix definition and matrix attributes that match the properties of the relevant sales order. Note that all of the matrix attributes must match the properties of the order. When found, the promotion linked to the promotion matrix is applied to the sales order.